Briane Keith Turley

Turley has received four Fulbright Awards including a Lectureship at the University of Szeged, the Alumni Initiative Fulbright (with Peter Torok and Andras Mate-Toth), and two lectureships granted under the Fulbright Specialist program. In 2020, Turley began research on the social history of Appalachian Hungarians under a fellowship from Corvinus University’s Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS).  In Hungary, he has lectured at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pazmany Peter University, Corvinus University, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, the University of Szeged, and the American Corner.  He has also lectured on a wide variety of topics ranging from digital GIS and computer-assisted learning to religious history at West Virginia University, King’s College London, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, the University of Michigan, Emory University, Hillsdale College, the Newberry Library, Chicago, Briercrest College, Canada, and during the fall 2015 semester served as distinguished guest lecturer at Crowther Graduate Seminary in Abeokuta, Nigeria.

Turley is the author of A Wheel Within a Wheel: Southern Methodism and the Georgia Holiness Association, and is co-author of Religion in World History, Routledge.  Currently, he is completing a book manuscript titled Doing Time in a Land of Liberty: A History of American Incarceration.  He now resides in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, with his wife, Ann, a retired music teacher. The Turley’s are the proud parents of Christopher, a University of Szeged M.A. graduate.